Harry Styles has come clean about the ‘transatlantic accent’ after his One Direction bandmate’s bizarre Oscars interview this week.
Fans were left baffled after Wolverhampton-born Liam Payne was filmed speaking with a new accent in his red carpet chat with Good Morning Britain, with many on social media asking afterwards why his voice had changed.
Liam had spoken at length about Will Smith’s dramatic slap on Chris Rock and revealed that he lives close to the Hollywood actor, saying he believed there were “three losers in one fight” — Will, Chris and Jada.
Some confused viewers commented that he had appeared to have taken on a Los Angeles way of speaking, while others also heard unexplained Irish and Welsh intonations in his delivery despite him being from England.
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While on Sonny Jay and Roman Kemp’s Capital Breakfast show on Friday morning, Harry was asked if he had also started to get a “transatlantic accent from America”, which he replied to by saying:
“Well don’t think in the time that I just got here, because I only got in yesterday for Coachella rehearsals, so in the space I’ve been here this trip I think I’ve survived”
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“I think it’s a little bit all over the place because I’m from up north and I’ve lived in London for 10 years and I’ve spent a lot of time in America and stuff and I think when I’m with Americans they don’t think I sound American at all, and then I think sometimes when I’m with English people they expect me to sound American, I don’t think I do, but I try and translate for whoever I’m with!”
The singer was also asked by Roman whether he sees himself as “an artist first or an actor first”, and said he thought he was a “musician first”
“I feel really lucky to get to do a job that I love and I feel very grateful to have been able to explore acting, something I did when I was a kid and stuff at school and I always really loved it.”, he added.
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